• frongt@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Usually these headlines are bs, but the stock price dropping by 50%, or several years’ growth? Yikes.

    I mean, still not really cratering but it’s a big drop. Nothing they can’t recover from.

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      4 hours ago

      The stock market is a psychopath. If you’re not actively growing you’re dying, so stable/steady profits and no year over year growth = stock plumits. That’s why companies that are profitable, but hit a saturation point, start to try to squeeze. Gotta make the almighty line go up. It’s all very short cited, but executive incentives are nearly always short term.